TY - BOOK AU - Burton, David M. TI - The history of mathematics: an introduction SN - 0072885238 [hardbound] PY - 2003/// CY - Boston : PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Mathematics KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Chapter 1 Early number systems and symbols -- Chapter 2 Mathematics in early civilizations -- Chapter 3 The beginnings of Greek mathematics -- Chapter 4 The Alexandrian school: Euclid -- Chapter 5 The twilight of Greek mathematics: Diophantus -- Chapter 6 The first awakening: Fibonacci -- Chapter 7 The renaissance of mathematics: Cardan and Tartaglia -- Chapter 8 The mechanical world: Descartes and newton -- Chapter 9 The development of probability theory: pascal, Bernoulli and Laplace -- Chapter 10 The revival of number theory Fermat ,Euler, and Gauss -- Chapter 11 Nineteenth-century contributions: Bolyai and Lobachevsky -- Chapter 12 Transition to the twentieth century:Cantor and Kronecker -- Chapter 13 Extensions and generalizations: Hardly, Hausdorff,and Noether ER -